Laissez-faire governance and the archetype laissez-faire city in the USA: Exploring houston

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-38

  Vojnovic, Igor ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PLANNING PROCESS; URBAN POLITICS;

HOUSTON; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 14644422951     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0467.00128     Document Type: Review

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